Sigrid Rausing
Articles by Sigrid Rausing
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Society
How porn blunts moral boundaries
- 11 November 2010
- 31 comments
The popular attitude to pornography is that it’s fine as long as the kids don’t see it. But this misses the point ― the direct link between adult exposure to porn and sexual abuse of children.
Middle East
Children of Abraham v sons of Ibrahim
- 12 July 2010
- 23 comments
On a visit to human rights groups in Israel and the West Bank, Sigrid Rausing senses a growing tension between the secular right and the liberal left, and struggles to accept the disparities between Jewish, Palestinian and refugee lives.
Human Rights
Uganda is sanctioning gay genocide
- 19 November 2009
- 1 comment
Sexual violence is everywhere in Uganda. A new bill punishing homosexuals is part of that culture
Europe
The death of a dream
- 25 June 2009
Andrew Brown has won the Orwell Prize for Fishing in Utopia, a memoir of life in Sweden. Here he talks to his friend Sigrid Rausing, herself a Swede, about what attracted him to Scandinavia and why he didn’t find the Jerusalem by the Baltic he had been expecting
Health
A garden of smoking pollen
- 11 June 2009
After falling from her horse, the author suffered concussion – and suddenly the world became a place of strange wonder
Middle East
The code for conspiracy
- 23 April 2009
There will never be peace in the Middle East until Palestinians and other Arabs confront the reality of anti-Semitism
UK Politics
A dangerous paranoia
- 26 March 2009
- 1 comment
The Home Office is attempting to sell the concept of ID cards to the public by claiming they are an essential weapon for controlling immigration
Human Rights
A country with no memory
- 05 February 2009
- 2 comments
As an anthropologist working in Russia in the 1990s, I believed a culture of memorials would emerge to mark the Soviet past. How wrong I was
North America
Grass-roots banking
- 16 October 2008
While Wall Street was in meltdown, Sigrid Rausing found an alternative model of lending thriving in Queens, New York
